No matching version found for @babel/traverse@^7.14.0

Question

I tried to clone a project and run npm install and came across this error:

npm ERR! code ETARGET
npm ERR! notarget No matching version found for @babel/traverse@^7.14.0.
npm ERR! notarget In most cases you or one of your dependencies are requesting
npm ERR! notarget a package version that doesn't exist.
npm ERR! notarget
npm ERR! notarget It was specified as a dependency of '@babel/helper-module-transforms'
npm ERR! notarget

I already googled and found some answers myself where a user was having problems with babel modules and the owner redirected it to here: https://gist.github.com/hzoo/df94af2d2ec48696e683b772c775aa67

We use a proxy for our company npm package, although I removed it from package.json for testing whether the issue was due to that, but still got the same problem.

npm cache clean --force
npm cache verify
npm config rm proxy
npm config rm https-proxy

but no luck

Here is my package.json

{
  "dependencies": {
    "@fortawesome/fontawesome-free": "^5.15.3",
    "@testing-library/react": "^11.2.5",
    "@testing-library/user-event": "^12.8.3",
    "@types/node": "^12.20.6",
    "@types/react": "^17.0.3",
    "@types/react-dom": "^17.0.3",
    "eslint-config-react-app": "^6.0.0",
    "eslint-config-react-app-tsc": "^6.0.0-rc.1",
    "react": "^17.0.2",
    "react-dom": "^17.0.2",
    "react-facebook": "^8.1.4",
    "react-router-dom": "^5.2.0",
    "react-scripts": "4.0.3",
    "react-slick": "^0.28.1",
    "react-twitter-embed": "^3.0.3",
    "reactjs-popup": "^2.0.4",
    "sp-rest-proxy": "^3.0.5",
    "typescript": "^4.2.4",
    "web-vitals": "^1.1.1"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "server": "node server.js",
    "start": "react-scripts start",
    "build": "react-scripts build",
    "test": "react-scripts test",
    "eject": "react-scripts eject"
  },
  "eslintConfig": {
    "extends": [
      "react-app"
    ]
  },
  "browserslist": {
    "production": [
      ">0.2%",
      "not dead",
      "not op_mini all"
    ],
    "development": [
      "last 1 chrome version",
      "last 1 firefox version",
      "last 1 safari version"
    ]
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@types/jquery": "^3.5.5",
    "@types/react-router-dom": "^5.1.7",
    "@types/react-slick": "^0.23.4",
    "bootstrap": "^4.6.0",
    "eslint-config-react": "^1.1.7",
    "jquery": "^3.6.0",
    "popper.js": "^1.16.1",
    "react-app": "^1.1.2"
  }
}

Answer 1

This happens because that version was published yesterday on the NPM registry but your company's registry is not up to date.

SOLUTION: open '.npmrc' which is located in your root. Comment out your first registry like this:

# registry=http://*******/*******/*****/

and add this:

registry=https://registry.npmjs.org/

Install that package version you need and then change back these 'registry' lines.